Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.